[Peace] Fwd: AASRP Conference

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI.  It is really too bad that we have an overlap with our Military 
and Families Speak Out program on Thursday night.

>Subject: AASRP Conference
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:34:21 -0600
>Thread-Topic: AASRP Conference
>Thread-Index: AcQVtBIYkHSxOaBPQcOKEJc+xgYaSQ==
>From: "Carla J Bloom" <cbloom at ad.uiuc.edu>
>To: "Carla J Bloom" <cbloom at ad.uiuc.edu>
>
>"FROM BROWN TO BLACK AND BEYOND:  AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 
>21ST CENTURY" CONFERENCE
>Afro-American Studies & Research Program
>University of Illinois
>Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
>
>Thursday, April 1, 2004
>Spurlock Museum
>600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana
>
>"El Negro Mas Chulo: African by Legacy, Mexican by Birth"
>(2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.)
>
>Ayana Vellissia Jackson, Photographer, Brooklyn, New York
>
>
>
>OPENING PLENARY SESSION
>(5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
>Spurlock Museum Auditorium
>
>"Tell No Lies Claim No Easy Victories:" African American Studies, 
>Its Legacies and the Challenges Ahead"
>
>Molefi Asante, Professor, African American Studies, Temple 
>University & Editor of the Journal of Black Studies
>
>Robert Chrisman, Chair, Black Studies, University of Nebraska at 
>Omaha, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of the Black Scholar
>
>Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor, Women's Research 
>and Resource Center at Spelman College
>
>RECEPTION (8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.) 
>Spurlock Museum
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Friday, April 2, 2004
>
>Plenary Session I (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
>ILLINI UNION
>Room A
>
>"Rhythms of Change: Revisiting and Reimagining the 
>Institutionalization of African American Studies"
>
>Manning Marable, Director of the Center for Contemporary Black 
>History & Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs at 
>Columbia University in New York
>
>Ula Taylor, Associate Professor of History and African American 
>Studies & Ethnicity, University of California at Berkley
>
>Fanon Wilkins, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP and History, UIUC
>
>SESSION II (11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.)
>ILLINI UNION
>Room A
>
>"Nigrescence Theory: Thirty Years of Theory & Research on Black 
>Identity Theory"
>
>William E. Cross, Jr., Professor and Head of the Doctoral Program in 
>Social Personality Psychology, The Graduate Center, Psychology 
>Department of City University of New York
>
>LUNCH BREAK (12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
>
>"Cross Currents Between Programs for the Study, Teaching and 
>Engagement with Racialized Communities"
>(1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
>Spurlock Museum Auditorium
>
>David Roediger, Director, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial 
>Society, Kendrick Babcock, Professor, AASRP and History, UIUC
>
>Scott Kurashige, Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Director 
>of the Women Research, Texas A & M University
>
>M. Bahati Kuumba, Associate Director of Women's Research & Resource 
>Center, Associate Professor of Women's Studies, Spelmen College
>
>Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Associate Professor, Sociology, Texas A&M University
>
>Pedro Caban, Professor Institute of Communications Research, UIUC
>
>Kent Ono, Facilitator, Director & Professor, Asian American Studies 
>Program, Professor Institute of Communications Research, UIUC
>
>ROUNDTABLE CONVERSATION (3:34 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
>Spurlock Museum
>"Black Art, Culture & Politics"
>
>Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor of American Studies at the 
>University of Texas at Austin
>Nichole Rustin, Assistant Professor, AASRP and the Institute for 
>Communication Research, UIUC
>Frances Gateward, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies, UIUC
>
>
>
>Saturday, April 3, 2004
>
>Plenary Session I (9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.)
>Illini Union
>Rooms A & B
>
>"Excavating the Chasm of the Past: Reparations and Renewing Rhythms 
>of Resistance"
>
>KRS-ONE, Recording Artist, Activist, Founder and Director, Temple of Hip Hop
>
>Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Director of the AASRP & Associate Professor 
>of History, UIUC
>
>LUNCH BREAK (12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
>
>CONCURRENT SESSIONS (1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.)
>(CALL FOR PAPERS)
>Illini Union
>
>A. In Our Own Image: Black Expression, Aesthetics, and Culture - 
>Illini Union Room 210
>Julius Thompson, Director, Black Studies Program & Professor of 
>History, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
>Jeffrey Williams
>John Jennings, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design, UIUC
>Nichole Rustin, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & Institute 
>of Communication Research, UIUC
>
>B. Health, Wellness, and the Longevity of Community - Illini Union Room 211
>David Crockett
>Marshawn Wolley, Graduate Student, African American and African 
>Diaspora Studies, Indiana University
>Assata Zerai, Facilitator, Associate Professor, AASRP & Sociology, UIUC
>
>C. Untying the Bonds of History - Illini Union Room 209
>Erik McDuffie, UIUC Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
>Angelita Reyes, Professor, African & African American Studies, 
>English & Women's Studies, Arizona State University
>W.F. Santiago-Valles
>Damion Thomas, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & Kinesiology, UIUC
>
>FINAL PLENARY
>(3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.)
>ILLINI UNION
>Room A
>
>"Re-Evaluating the Mission(s) of African American Studies"
>
>James Conyers, Director & Professor of African American Studies, 
>University of Houston
>
>Charles Jones, Chair of the Department of African-American Studies & 
>Associate Professor, Georgia State University
>
>Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Professor, History & Geography, Morgan State 
>University, Baltimore, MD
>
>Lou Turner, Assistant Professor Sociology, North Central College, 
>Naperville, Illinois
>
>Barrington Edwards, Facilitator, Assistant Professor, AASRP & History, UIUC


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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